We’re lower than 100 days away from the Solheim Cup within the Netherlands and simply two months away from group choice – it’s loopy!
It will be right here earlier than we all know it, nevertheless it’s good to see all of the work we’re doing behind the scenes beginning to come collectively. I’m completely satisfied everyone seems to be so excited and concerned within the journey and all the things occurring.
I used to be in a position to meet up with Suzann Pettersen on the US Girls’s Open this previous week and run some ideas and concepts by way of her, given her information as European captain in 2023 and 2024.
My vice-captain Anne van Dam lives in Los Angeles and got here out to comply with among the ladies taking part in at Riviera Nation Membership, so it is good to have been in a position to choose one another’s brains!
Anne and I’ll take round 12 gamers for a group apply at Bernardus Golf [this year’s Solheim Cup venue] in mid-July, so we can be finalising the small print for that within the coming weeks.
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Have a look again at a few of Crew Europe captain Anna Nordqvist’s finest photographs from her earlier Solheim Cup appearances
I’ve all the time believed the rating will care for a number of the group choice, so I am making an attempt to be encouraging and supportive to all of the gamers making an attempt their hardest to make the group presently.
Helen Briem had an excellent win on the Jabra Girls Open de France on the Girls European Tour two weeks in the past to maneuver inside a degree of Chiara Tamburlini for one of many automated qualifying spots on the European Solheim Cup factors record, so the 2 of them may have an excellent battle coming down the stretch for that spot.
Helen Briem claimed the second LET victory of her profession with a seven-shot win on the Open de France
Celine Boutier simply received the ShopRite LPGA on the LPGA Tour, displaying nice kind, then we noticed Maja Stark and Charley Hull have an incredible week on the US Girls’s Open!
This week the LPGA Tour is taking part in a group occasion with the Dow Championship in Michigan, and I’m excited to see so most of the European ladies group up collectively.
Maja companions her good good friend Linn Grant, Julia Lopez Ramirez performs with Mimi Rhodes, Pauline Roussin-Bouchard with Manon De Roey, Helen with Nastasia Nadaud and Nanna Koerstz Madsen with Celine Boutier, to call a number of.
Mimi Rhodes is hoping to characteristic on this 12 months’s Solheim Cup for Crew Europe
I am trying ahead to persevering with to comply with everybody’s journey, with three extra majors to go – the KPMG Girls’s PGA Championship, Evian Championship and AIG Girls’s Open – to shut out the qualifying interval.
Then, we will totally put together and get everybody on the identical web page main as much as September!
Anna Nordqvist’s column was offered by the Girls European Tour forward of the Solheim Cup, dwell from September 11-13 on Sky Sports activities. Get Sky Sports activities or stream with no contract.
